Katherine Harris Quotes
And if we are the ones not actively involved in electing those godly men and women and if people aren’t involved in helping godly men in getting elected than we’re going to have a nation of secular laws. That’s not what our founding fathers intended and that’s certainly isn’t what God intended.
Her distorted historical view of the intentions of the Founding Fathers contradicts just about everything most said and wrote at the constitutional convention and otherwise. There was a small minority of very fundamentalist Christians who had an established church model in mind but most had observed the disasters in England and the rest of Europe brought by religion in government, and also had the problematic history of early American colonies with religion and politics. Also, at the time there were already over a dozen different substantial religions in the colonies as well as a number of non-religious and dissenter colonists. Even though there was no established church or any of the aspects of religion in government as Ms. Harris prefers written in the original constitution, the American people wanted to be so sure of that separation that they required the First Amendment in order to obtain ratification. On the other hand Ms. Harris had one strong aspect to her argument. She knew what God wanted, while her opponents and most Americans did not have that insight.
Katherine Harris, U. S. Congressman (Republican, FL) Quoted in The Florida Baptist Witness newspaper
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The argument over whether or not the Founding Fathers intended a religious—Christian—foundation in the formation of America is not just a debate of modern times, but has been debated even in the next generation of politicians. Webster, believed that it was.
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Over 1000 people had registered to be candidates in the Iranian national election. However, under the Iranian Islamic Constitution all candidates have to be approved by the Guardian Council of Ayatollahs who are appointed by the Supreme Leader, also appointed. The Guardian Council found that all candidates but 6 were not worthy enough Muslims to be allowed to run for public office. 2 of the over 1000 rejected candidates were very prominent Iranians. The Supreme Leader made this statement which seems very reasonable and democratic until his order to the Guardian Council is considered. He ordered them to reconsider 2 or the 1000 rejected candidates.
At the time she had little perspective on the masterful techniques of President Reagan. He mentioned God frequently and by doing so established an image amongst religious fundamentalists. But he gave them anything but lip service for most of their issues: abortion, censorship of pornography, elimination of birth control in schools or funded by the government, stronger divorce laws, etc. Actually Reagan rarely attended church in his entire life and was himself divorced.
This proposal and others like it over the years have never even gotten out of Committee.
Katherine Harris is an American politician, elected in 1998 as Secretary of State of Florida and in 2002 to the United States House of Representatives from Florida. A Republican, Harris won the 2002 election to represent Florida's 13th congressional district, serving for two terms, from 2003 to 2007. Harris lost her campaign in 2006 for a United States Senate seat from Florida.
